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...Freshman leaper Gus Udo also went unchallenged in the long jump with a winning mark of 23 ft., 8 in., a whole foot beyond the second-place finisher...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Tracksters Lose Heps Meet Despite Fine Personal Efforts | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...days swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper. I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas. Louis Quinze is to Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid, would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...DAYS swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...Marie De Angelo, 24. Soloist, Jeffrey Ballet. A fiery, flamboyant crowd pleaser and a prodigious leaper, California-bred De Angelo revels in bravura solos. Trained in San Francisco by veterans of the Kirov Ballet, she wants to dance classical story ballets like Giselle, "an ultimate goal for me." Her height (5 ft. 1 in.) has caused some shortsighted ballet masters to overlook her. Says De Angelo: "I've never felt short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Others at the Turning Point | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...York at Stony Brook, John Fleagle, discovered the latest pieces in the jigsaw puzzle, four fragments of humeri, or upper-arm bones. Until now, it had been assumed that Aegyptopithecus swung through trees as modern monkeys do, but the humeri show that it was not a swinger or leaper, but simply walked on all fours from branch to branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laskey's Find | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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